McCarthyism was a phenomenon that occurred during the 1950s Second Red Scare. The First Red Scare was a time of fear in American society of the rise of communism, anarchy and the radical left brought on by the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 in Russia. The leaders of communism had declared ...
Why was the USA unable to defeat Communism in Asia between 1965-1973? The policy of containment in Asia was probably one of America’s worst executed political strategies of the last centaury. There were a number of fatal flaws that meant the USA could never really claim a total victory in...
Lee Hockstader
The Soviet Union seemed to be advancing against the United States during the 1950s. Then the unimaginable happen, the Soviet Union was able to launch a missile into outer space which contained the world’s first artificial satellite. In the United States, Americans were surprised that the Soviet...
“The fear of Communism sparked the United States to take major foreign initiatives after World War II” (Document 6). As stated previously in that quote, the Vietnam War as well as many other conflicts of the Cold War era all stemmed from one thing: the United State’s perhaps “...
Following opposition to American involvement in Vietnam, much of the American population had become anti-war with growing opposition to nuclear tests and American military involvement in foreign nations. Western culture did not fear communism in the 1970s to the same extent as opposed to the 1950...
When talking about innovation generally I liked Ted’s toss-off line, “People are always happy with what they’ve got.” He said it in relation to the Steve Jobs quote that “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them,” but it struck me as an observation even mor...
Like virtually all of the work of Ludwig von Mises, these two essays, his 1958 Liberty and Property and his 1950 Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism are timeless. They are as important now as they have ever been and will increase in relevance as
The war wreaked havoc not only on Afghanistan, but on the Soviet Union, whose economy and national prestige took a severe drubbing. The military misadventure would contribute significantly to the USSR’s later collapse and breakup. So why did Moscow do it? Afghanistan Had Long Held Strategic ...
I think the 1980 German numbers include the East, but can’t be certain. I do know that Germany’s relative decline increased after 1994, by which time the East German incomes had definitely been incorporated in the data. Italy: Did even less reforms than Germany and France, and has a ...